Debate and discussion about academic crowdsourcing and community content in the UK and beyond, with highlights and interesting ideas from the day. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Melissa Highton (Oxford University Computing Services) examines how Oxford's crowdsourced and community collections of open educational resources are supported and embedded in practice for sustainability. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Arfon Smith (University of Oxford) presents the experience of the Zooniverse team with their citizen science and crowdsourcing efforts and the changing role of the citizen scientist. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Alun Edwards and Stuart Lee (Oxford University Computing Services) present their experiences of running public participation days in Germany to gather everyday objects from World War I. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Chris Morgan 'Mog' (University of Glamorgan, GEECS) presents on the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project and the collection of digital stories that community members make. Stories hold a special power to engage people and when those stories are personal, honest and genuine they can captivate and inspire in a way that excites, moves and motivates us. All personal stories have a special honesty that the storyteller themselves is not always conscious of, as so much can be said in a pause, a change of tone and a turn of phrase in which we hear the truth and genuineness of experience. As part of the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project Mog's team collects digital stories that community members make for themselves, their community, family and friends using technology that many exper Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Hope Wolf (King's College London) presents 'Anecdotes' and 'Life Stories' from the Strandlines project, the flagship for the Centre for Life Writing. Also news of the AHRC's SPICE (Stimulating Participation in the Informal Creative Economy) which enables exchanges of ideas between different community groups.

Melissa Highton, Head of the Learning Technologies group at Oxford University Computing Services opens the conference. She referred to the themes of earlier Beyond conferences, and introduced today's theme "Beyond Collections". Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Debate and discussion about academic crowdsourcing and community content in the UK and beyond, with highlights and interesting ideas from the day. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Melissa Highton (Oxford University Computing Services) examines how Oxford's crowdsourced and community collections of open educational resources are supported and embedded in practice for sustainability. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Arfon Smith (University of Oxford) presents the experience of the Zooniverse team with their citizen science and crowdsourcing efforts and the changing role of the citizen scientist. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Alun Edwards and Stuart Lee (Oxford University Computing Services) present their experiences of running public participation days in Germany to gather everyday objects from World War I. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Chris Morgan 'Mog' (University of Glamorgan, GEECS) presents on the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project and the collection of digital stories that community members make. Stories hold a special power to engage people and when those stories are personal, honest and genuine they can captivate and inspire in a way that excites, moves and motivates us. All personal stories have a special honesty that the storyteller themselves is not always conscious of, as so much can be said in a pause, a change of tone and a turn of phrase in which we hear the truth and genuineness of experience. As part of the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project Mog's team collects digital stories that community members make for themselves, their community, family and friends using technology that many exper Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Hope Wolf (King's College London) presents 'Anecdotes' and 'Life Stories' from the Strandlines project, the flagship for the Centre for Life Writing. Also news of the AHRC's SPICE (Stimulating Participation in the Informal Creative Economy) which enables exchanges of ideas between different community groups.

Melissa Highton, Head of the Learning Technologies group at Oxford University Computing Services opens the conference. She referred to the themes of earlier Beyond conferences, and introduced today's theme "Beyond Collections". Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Professor Verkijika G. Fanso of Yaounde University in Cameroon compares two photo archives both taken around the same time, which are now held in Cambridge and South Africa Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

A talk delivered by Andrew Green at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. In the research library of the future the provision of services, many of them new, will eclipse the traditional care of collections -- or at least the care of what is termed 'common collections'. 'Distinctive collections', though, will increase in prominence, and become the basis for new activity. Research libraries, and especially these distinctive collections, will increasingly look beyond the home institution, and beyond academia, for their future uses. Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/